Chapter 726 Chapter 1704 Divination of National Destiny

Chapter 726 Chapter 17.04 Divining the National Destiny

September 20, 3232 of the Fire Emblem Calendar, Anglo Empire, Bendu Industrial City. Today's air is still "foggy" as usual. In the streets and alleys, people are walking on the sidewalks wrapped in dark woolen coats that are not easy to get dirty.

In the compass tower, a large gear with a diameter of twelve meters is rotating. This is a huge divination device. Every day, a card will be opened on the top of the huge tower to predict today, this month, and this year. This six-square-meter divination card can be seen throughout the city

So almost every day when the gear is about to rotate out of the card, there will be many people standing under the compass tower and looking up, just like looking at the time.

However, today is not just as simple as the pedestrians passing by looking up at the time. Many people specifically watched the complex gears in the middle of the clock tower turning half an hour before the tower opened the cards. This look is like a gambler watching the lottery opening.

The reason is very simple. It has been 45 consecutive days since the blood tooth grass was opened. This symbol has not changed every day. And the continuous opening of the same symbol seems to be a foreshadowing of something.

Since ancient times, only when the Anglo Empire faces severe changes in national power will the compass tower appear in this way.

For example, four hundred years ago, the empire encountered a strong guerrilla counterattack from the local tribes in the southernmost gold mining area of ​​the "T" continent, which made the imperial army fall into a quagmire. The empire compass tower opened the "golden snake" card for 30 consecutive days.

This divination effect of the compass tower is actually to judge the situation when "a strong upward willpower suddenly rises and collides with the interests of the Anglo Empire."

…Behind the solemn metal bell tower of Anglo, all the black stains are blood debts accumulated over the years...

Fifteen kilometers away from the compass tower, in the 23rd laboratory. Zhang Ke came down from the operating table with a pale face. In the last mission, his entire team suffered from mental pollution.

These mental pollutions were caused by the negative mental impacts after the failure of the Saint Card Heroic Spirit Ritual, as well as the ominous gold coins that were backfired with the failure of the Fuling Potion.

For example, before Zhang Ke came back, he had a carbuncle on the back of his neck, which then broke open, and a strange baby face the size of a fist appeared, smiling forever, and it would grow out even after being cut.

The Ministry of Magic spent a lot of energy, but still couldn't dispel the demons on Zhang Ke's body. At present, it can only be sealed to the size of a little finger by cutting.

As for complete dispelling, some famous great wizards need to be scheduled to come out of retreat to operate, and now, with the instability of the magic network and other reasons, all senior wizards are practicing hard. If you want to invite them to work, you need to make an appointment, otherwise you can't find them.

In other words, these are some promises that these wizards made when they came out of retreat.

Each promise is a token that can be contacted. Zhang Ke must consume enough merits to exchange such tokens from the Ministry of Magic.

[Note: In fact, it is very easy for ancient arcanists to save the curse of these Aurors, but the current era belongs to "mystery", and those who have survived from ancient times to the present day are obsessed. Although these curses can be easily removed, the more exposed they are, the more difficult it is to deal with the ancient mysteries, and Zhang Ke and his team are looking for the removal of the curse. It is as difficult as "poor people asking rich people to do things"]

And Zhang Ke's unfortunate journey is an amplifier for observing the time traveler.

In the afternoon, when the "Blood Tooth Grass" was opened on the 46th day of the Imperial Compass Tower, in Spider's End Alley, No. 54, in the gray magic house, there were various bookshelves, tables and chairs in this house, but in the middle of the floor, there was a piece of broken water.

Zhang Ke walked in front of the water, and the reflection of a white-bearded magic hat appeared on the mirror of the water.

Reflection: "You want to go to the Sky Empire area again."

Zhang Ke said: "Can you exchange for "Phoenix Ashes"? " (This is a strong dispersing substance)

Reflection: "Yes."

Zhang Ke nodded, without asking why, and walked directly to the basin on the shelf beside him. He reached into the mist in the basin and took out the task scroll.

Reflection: "Don't you want to ask about the content? This is not your style."

Zhang Ke: "I know the situation of the target area."

Reflection did not comment: "I will give you some information for friendship. In the Sky Empire, the chain ban we set up has expired. According to the information we have already known, a powerful force has emerged, suppressing the application of all mysterious arts."

Zhang Ke paused after reading the information, and murmured: "Spell invalidation barrier?"

Reflection gradually faded: "You can go and investigate."

The water on the floor dried up, revealing the rotten wooden floor.

...Mystery does not want people to know about itself, but always wants to peek into all secrets...

At this time, in the northern territory of the Sky Empire, even the smallest village. The former blacksmiths, now mechanical workers, fixed the shining iron stars on the wooden poles, and under the iron stars was a cluster of red tassels, implying that new stars would rise, and in the process of rising, the blood of countless brave mortals dyed the red tassels under the stars red.

This is the symbol of the Iron Star regime.

At the same time, the reform strategy of the big cities in the south once again leaned towards the "right" line.

I don't know whether the reformist theorists became bad because of money or were born stupid. They tried to form an enlightened cabinet with the empire to achieve the so-called order and stability.

The urban faction didn't care whether their turn at this time would seriously hit the enthusiasm of the northern revolutionaries at this time.

These urban factions didn't realize that after the rebels from the rural areas combined with the industrial cities in the north, they not only controlled food and steel, but also knew the interests of their own class camp in terms of culture and thought.

And the iron star that was still burning and still declared to strike everything inside and outside, creating unfair oppressors and invaders became the only burning concept creation.

"Concept" is just a virtual thing evolved in human thinking in the main world.

But in this world, the "concept" determined by a large number of human beings is indeed an objective physical variable.

For example, in ancient times there was the concept of the sun god. This concept was understood by life and penetrated into the quantum information field, giving birth to the sun god consciousness.

It can make some changes in the sunlight on the continent. As for making this "concept" complete the materialistic means, it can adjust the transparency in the atmosphere on a large scale. It can even make the sunlight energy stagnate for a moment.

In the Wanlun Continent, a world that is about to advance to the third level, the total concept (faith power) generated is thousands of times that of the "Sword and Magic" era. In other words, if you fully master the thoughts of an entire continent for one year, you will gain faith power that is thousands of years in the agricultural era.

The gods of the ancient times could control the sun and the vibrations in the earth's crust, so the gods of the industrial age were even more powerful. To a certain extent, the gods have established a strong perception in the universe.

…In the multiverse, every civilization and plane is a burning firewood. For the gods, all this has an end…

The faith power of the second and third stage worlds is very positive, simple and orderly. Unlike the fourth stage world, the faith power there is very dirty. Therefore, the second and third level worlds are now the focus of the new gods.

The fourth stage world is an interstellar world: everything that "normal humans" can recognize is recognized. Only by further carrying out "biochemical transformation" and "human-machine integration" and other abnormal human fields can we continue to contact "desire, pursuit" and strong faith power.

…Gods exist to satisfy people’s hopes, but not all human hopes will give birth to gods…

Almost all concepts of civilization development are derived from the spread of gods. All things used by humans also come from gods!

In the worlds of Wanlun Continent, the newly emerged “Iron Star” is unusual. This is not a concept that any “god” who tried to fill the industrial gap in the past Pantheon thought of.

Perhaps, “Iron Star” is completely different from the “freedom and upwardness” of the earliest industrialization concept. Instead, it is full of “sacrifice, responsibility” and other burdens that make gods feel sad.

Wei Keng’s arrival this time was too “dull”, but he was able to perfectly continue the “industry” of the first time in terms of the core concept.

Just like a song, the high and low, each half is completely different. Those who got the first half wanted to continue the “high” of the first half, but found that they couldn’t write it. Therefore, a large number of unfinished tunes were produced. Now the “original author” directly turned the tune to low, so that after a little ups and downs, the noise was removed and it could rise again.

In fact, the last time, Wei Keng suddenly left because of Sainz's series of negative operations, which was a sign of turning from "upward" to "downward".

And this secret. It was hidden by Sainz, Micah, and Monat.

And the entire Mediterranean gods did not admit that Wei Keng, the consciousness of the Great River System, left because of their wrong operations.

And such arrogance and disregard made them unable to find the way for the subsequent "Industrial Godhead" to evolve sustainably in the world.

Now on the Wanlun Continent, this is the second half of the solo of the "Industrial Godhead", but this second half is not called "industry".

...For the gods: mountains are not mountains, water is not water, but standing here with Wei Keng: mountains are still mountains, water is still water...

Back to the present, under the light of the Iron Star, all the mysterious phenomena have not disappeared, but they can all be recognized from a new perspective.

So a large number of mysterious phenomena near this area have all been "into science".

This situation has also occurred in the history of Wanlun Continent. When the Industrial Revolution first appeared, the traditional arcane system was greatly suppressed to the point where it was almost invisible.

All kinds of strange curses retreated to the southernmost tip of the "T" continent, and with the advance of naval guns and the stationing of heroic units, a large number of ancient spell books were lost.

At that time, all the "witchcraft" in the world was severely damaged.

Only Anglo-Pontus established the "Forever Insider" storage library in the inner ring of the Royal World Museum and under the Compass Tower, and forcibly monopolized it as unknowable, so that some of the "ancient mysticism" was preserved and not completely destroyed by the trend.

And after that cognitive tide, when human society was divided into various levels again, and the perspective gradually could not witness every corner of the world, mysticism revived again.

...People's perspectives are blinded, and everything can be mystified, even science cannot escape...

For example, in the ancient times of the main world,

For example, signal towers have radiation, and water has memory.

There is an alien base on the back of the moon.

And why are people's perspectives blinded? That's because of the social class blocking.

When some classes don't want the world to see all of them, then some things will have complex interpretations.

At present, some of the oldest and most powerful people in the mysterious world are very shocked by the sudden rise of the Iron Star.

Of course, in terms of the attitude towards the Iron Star, it is the same as the Great Cognition a thousand years ago, waiting for the trend to pass.

...Nothing is immortal, and the same is true for the healthy atmosphere of human society...

However, Wei Keng himself knows that the trend he has set off will eventually fade away. Now the new concept of "seeing through the darkness" in the hearts of all ordinary people will eventually be wasted because of the abandonment of ordinary people.

So this is why ordinary travelers in the past had no such choice on the path of arcane.

The price of lighting up the era every time is that the bravest and wisest people pay their lives, so very few people do so.

..."Deification" means that the travelers in the main world have grown old...

September 20, on the hot land illuminated by the Iron Star.

Enma stared at the Anglo-American intervention forces and whispered: "Obviously they want to suck blood, but they can condense the concept of executing justice. Tsk, tsk, it's really weird."

The direction Enma stared at was the impact direction of the armored force of the "White Wing Knights".

At this time, concrete defense towers were newly built on the steel tower city behind Enma, and anti-tank trenches and barrier fortifications with hexagram corners were deployed throughout the city. These defense towers carrying 200mm long-barreled armor-piercing guns were just in front of these corners.

The entire defense was completed within 15 days, and the Iron Star blocking troops had been dealing with the opponent here for more than half a year.

...Anglo missed the best opportunity to intervene in the waiting for half a year...

In Enma's strategic judgment, Anglo's troops were very high in terms of technology content and military combination, and even their hero unit skills were amazing.

After all the Iron Star troops had fought against the Imperial Army one after another, their morale was high. When they wanted to hit the invader head-on at one time, Wei Keng still remained clear and calm.

Master Wei: After making an accurate comparison between the enemy and us, we still decided to "defend" and add "mushroom circles".

Let him understand the lake and river terrain after the northern part of the Sky Empire was cut by glaciers.

…On the Iron Star side, Enma is not only improving himself, but also focusing on training Iron Star generals. …

In the Iron Star frontier harassment force, there is a strange vehicle here. This vehicle has deformable wings and its armor is pure energy electromagnetic armor.

The weight of the entire vehicle is 345 tons. When sailing on land, the mechanical arm holds a seven-meter-long and three-meter-wide metal shield to block the surroundings, but once the mechanical arm retracts the shield behind the chassis. The mechanical bulges on both sides of the vehicle will unfold the originally folded wings, and at the same time a strong air cushion effect will appear on the ground, and a rocket jet will be installed at the bottom of the vehicle. The vehicle can directly shuttle short distances of three to four kilometers.

Narrator: An Jiexin's super vehicle can perform three to four kilometers of "flash" jumps

This kind of "frog jump" combat is a complete set of "fluid dynamics" concepts in the driver's mind.

The controller of this vehicle, Anjiexin, is already a hero unit. She has two skills. One is that this vehicle leapfrogs to fight, and the other is to emit a jet of "ultra-high energy beam". The molten metal in the jet will corrode the enemy vehicle for half an hour.

... Anjiexin was born in a rural forest ranger family. …

At this time, Anjiexin was using rivers, hills and other terrains to carry out this kind of intermittent radiation to the White Wing Knights 10 to 20 kilometers away.

In this way, fighting alone, the weakest "Swordsman" level armored units (280-ton land cruisers with triple 120mm turrets) of the Anglo-Southern countries frequently malfunctioned in their mechanical structures and fell behind.

The main Anglo-land armored forces had to maintain their battle formation to deal with this kind of surprise attack.

The Anglos even used four airships to search for Anjiexin.

Of course, every time the airship was hit by a missile, because Anjiexin's chariot was covered by Enma's "optical stealth" during the raid.

...Enma's combat creed: You can use your subjective initiative, but don't be "individualistic heroism", it's not bad to ask teammates for help...

In September, just ready to go south, in the White Wing Knights, Commander Lance frowned and looked at the damaged vehicles that retreated to the defense position.

The "Priest" vehicle (250 tons) extended its mechanical arm, opened several submarine-like mechanical entrances of the damaged chariot, poured in a large amount of alkaline foam, ended the corrosion, and then poured in the precious "repair liquid aluminum alloy".

The originally rusted chariot structure in the concept field was restored like polishing, and the original roughness of the machinery in reality became lubricated.

The damage caused by Anjiexin's attack to the Anglo Empire armor has been repaired by engineers, but Lance feels that things are getting more and more quagmire.